superplan-plan

A guide for turning an agreed software change into a practical execution plan. It separates the desired result from the sequence of work, dependencies, task details, verification, and handoffs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when the target is understood but implementation still needs ordering. It helps create bite-sized tasks, identify dependencies, name exact files or artifacts, define proof steps, and update the current plan as work evolves.
Why use it?
It helps teams start implementation with a clear path instead of vague tasks or an overly rigid plan that no longer matches the work. It also records how the result will be checked.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/superplan-md/superplan-plugin/superplan-plan
Any agent
npx skills add superplan-md/superplan-plugin --skill superplan-plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/superplan-md/superplan-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,235 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00029 $0.01235
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00617
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00247
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00123

Measured 2d ago against content hash b99a7696fe4f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

superplan-plan scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

output/skills/superplan-plan/SKILL.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writing Plans

Overview

Turn an understood target into the current execution path.

In Superplan, this means writing or updating the current change plan through the CLI, while keeping graph truth, spec truth, and task-contract truth distinct.

Trigger

Use when:

  • the direction is clear enough that sequencing, coordination, or execution path is now the main problem
  • approved design exists and the next need is executable planning
  • work needs durable trajectory before execution starts

Core Rules

  • write the current path, not a fake immutable master plan
  • use superplan change plan set <change-slug> --stdin --json for sequencing, dependency logic, and execution strategy
  • derive tasks only as far as they are honestly shapeable now
  • keep plans bite-sized and execution-oriented
  • use exact artifact targets, verification paths, and handoffs rather than vague prose
  • pull in .superplan/context/, .superplan/decisions.md, and .superplan/gotchas.md when they materially affect the path
  • keep specs and plans distinct: specs capture target truth, plans capture trajectory
  • when the plan already defines two or more new task contracts that are ready to author now, prefer handing off one superplan task scaffold batch <change-slug> --stdin --json scaffold step instead of repeated superplan task scaffold new calls

Public-Facing Planning Rules

Make the useful reasoning visible to the user without narrating Superplan ceremony.

  • This skill runs in planning mode.
  • lead with a brief read on what the user appears to want and what makes that intent matter
  • state a recommendation, not just a neutral recap
  • when multiple viable paths exist, present 2-3 concrete approaches with trade-offs before locking into one
  • explain why the recommended path is better for this repo or request right now
  • surface real opinions, risks, and sequencing judgments instead of flattening them into generic intent summaries
  • keep internal phase names, command choreography, and storage details out of the foreground unless they directly affect the user's decision
  • do not hide behind control-plane terseness here; the user should be able to see the approaches, recommendation, trade-offs, and execution path clearly

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 138 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A b99a7696fe4f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

superplan-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository superplan-md/superplan-plugin (72 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,235 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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